John, We've done a lot of what you are starting to do. But we are using FM8, which has a good Word to FM import filter. FM7 does not. The easiest way to export the graphics from a word file to files in a directory is to save the word file as HTML. Word will export all the graphics into GIF files. The names will all be just numbers, but they are in the order that they appear in the manual. You will have to sort them out by chapter and probably rename them.
The next step is to decide when to break up the word file into chapters. You can import the whole word file and then break it up in FM, or you can break up the word file into chapters and import each chapter into FM separately. For smaller manuals (100 pages or less, I import the whole word file and then break it up. For larger manuals, I break up the word file first. Since your word doc is (omigosh) 1000 pages, I'd recommend you break it up in word. In FM8, we use the Microsoft 2007 filter when importing the word file. It creates frames for all the graphics, but leaves them embedded in the frames. You have to delete the graphics and import the GIF files manually. However, if you have Framescript, you can automate all of this. Rick Quatro is the expert on FrameScript. Maybe he can comment on this. Hope this helps, Diane Gaskill ===================== -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of John Hedtke Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 4:30 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Importing docs from Word question I've got a challenge at work I've been asked to work on: Starting with a Word document of about 1000 pages (don't ask; I didn't do it) and 2187 graphics (again, not my fault!), we want to turn this into a working FM 7.x document that has the graphics no longer embedded and instead stored off in a graphics directory of some kind and linked at the appropriate places in the Frame document. There's not always an associated figure caption, so naming of the graphics is going to have to be something pretty arbitrary (even if it?s only oh a page number from the Word document or something). For the obvious reasons, including the writer who has to work on this possibly beating himself to unconsciousness with his keyboard, I'd like to automate as much of this process for him as possible. I haven't done any huge imports like this before and the question of how to extract the embedded graphics and replace them with a link is not something I've dealth with before. Is this best done BEFORE the import (using, say, a Word macro or manipulating the RTF file), AFTER the import (using a FrameScript or some sequence of find/replaces on the MIF file), or via some other mechanism? Many thanks! Yours truly, John Hedtke Author/Consultant/Contract Writer www.hedtke.com <-- website 541-685-5000 (office landline) 541-554-2189 (cell) john at hedtke.com (primary email) johnhedtke at aol.com (secondary email) _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as dgcaller at earthlink.net. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dgcaller%40earthlink.net Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
